A Florida man with ties to Gwinnett County has been charged in Douglas County after a Facebook Marketplace sale went sour.
32-year-old Quinn Rosse appeared in court Monday morning for a bond hearing after being charged with rolling back the odometer on a 2013 Ford Explorer he sold to a Carroll County man. Investigators say Rosse rolled the digital odometer back 100,000 miles, inflating the true value of the SUV.
Ethan Lands of Bowdon thought he was buying an SUV with 105,000 miles. He says he needed a larger vehicle without a lot of miles on it to accommodate his soon-to-be born child. Lands says he did not realize the true mileage of the vehicle until he tried to register it.
“I was trying to buy a decent, reliable car,” says Lands. “No telling what else they did.”
He paid $9,500 for the Ford Explorer he no longer trusts driving.
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